Velvet carpet and process of making same.



No. 699,6l6. Patented May 6, I902.

J. W. DIMICK, 18.81, J. JAGG'ER. VELVET CARPET AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAME.

(Application filed Jan. 27, 1902.)

(No Model.)

' the several strips used to form the rug.

with Sra'rns JEREMIAH \V. DIMIOK, JR, AND JOSEPH JAGGER, OF RIFTON, NEIV YORK.

VELVET CARPET AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 699,616, dated May 6, 1902. Application filed January 27,1902. Serial No. 91,310. (No specimens) T0 at] whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JEREMIAH W. DIMICK, J r., and JosEPH JAGGER,citizens of the United States, and residents of Rifton, in the county of Ulster and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Velvet Oarpetand Processes of Making the Same,of which the followingis a specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relatesto velvet carpet or other fabric having printed pattern-warps, and relates especially to carpet or large rugs of this description having large pattern elements. These pattern-warpsare printed or otherwise colored to form a sectionaldesign and are before weaving them into the fabric joined to form compound. pattern warps which embody the compound design of the completed fabric.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating one embodiment of this invention, and in which the same reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the various figures, Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view of one of the strips. Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view illustrating the printing of the warp-sections. Figs. 3 and 4 show the formation of the compound warp-threads. Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate the structure of the fabric. Fig. 7 isa diagrammatic view showing the arrangement of Fig. 8 illustrates a modified form of fabric.

The rug illustrated in the drawings and embodying this invention is composed of a number of strips, preferably symmetrical about the middle of the rug, two of such strips being shownin Fig. 7. The right-hand strip 0 is formed with a border element 0 extending around three sides of the same, and with the corner designs 0 which represent conventionally a rug design. The left strip 0 is formed symmetrical to the strip 0 about the middle line of the rug and hasthe corresponding pattern elements C and 0 It will be understood, of course, that the two strips are sewed or otherwise joined together to form the rug. They are, however, shown as separated in Fig. 7 to bring out their structure more clearly.

The right strip (illustrated on a larger scale in Fig. 1) comprises compound pattern-warps,

about the middle of the same.

the formation of one of these warps, such as occurs along the line 00 0c of Fig. 1, being indicated in Figs. 3 and 4, which are drawn on a different scale to present in a more simple manner the relation between the strip 0 and the pattern elements in the warp-thread. This compound warp-thread, as illustrated in Fig. 4., is composed of the direct warpthread B and the reverse warp-threadlA, tied together by the knots A and B which occur at the border ends and'center of the pattern, respectively. It will be seen that both the direct and reverse warp-threads forming the pattern-warp comprise the pattern elements A B A and B and the knotting-sections A, B, A, and'B, these pattern elements producing the portions 0 and (J of the strip 0. The two sections of the pattern-warp are symmetrical about the center knot B and therefore the pattern of the strip 0 is symmetrical These sectional pattern-warps are produced as follows: The warp-threads are Wound upon the printing-drum D (indicated in Fig. 2) by the revolution of this drum about its axis D. Several skeins A and B are wound upon the drum, as indicated, and these sections are simultaneously printed, so that each turn of the warp-threads upon the drum is printed with color-strips extending parallel to the axis of the drum. In this way the patternsections A and B 'aresimilarly colored, and

the pattern-sections A and B are also of the same color and have the same length in each of the threads in skein A and skein B. At the same time that the pattern-sections are printed upon the warp-threads the knotting-see tions A, B, A, and B are also printed in some distinctive color to enable them to be readily determined during their. subsequent when they are spooled in the ordinary way or in any desired manner are wound differently, the end B being led off first from skein B, for instance, while the opposite end of the skeinA is led off first, so that skein B are beamed in a similar manner to produce a reverse warp-beam. These direct and reverse warps are then used to form a compound beam of warp, the individual warpthreads being severed at the knotting-sec- .tions along the line 3 y of Fig. 2 and united properly at the center and border of the pattern in every case by the knots B and A (indicated in Fig. 4) or in any other desired way,the compound warp-threads being wound upon a beam in any desired manner to form a compound pattern-warp, in which the patte'rnelement is substantially twice the length of the quarter-section pattern warp-threads as they are printed upon the drum. It will of course be understood that it is not necessary to conduct these operations in exactly the order whichhas been described, since the knotting-sections of the direct and reverse warp-threads in the skeins A and 13 could be united in a proper manner and the warpth'reads spooled as'a compound warp and subsequently beamed. Instead of uniting two warp-sections to form a compound warp it is of course possible to unite any other clesired number of properly-printed sectional pattern-warps to form a compound warp; and also sectional pattern-warpsof any character might be united, as indicated, to form a compound pattern-warp.

The beam of compound warp is woven as the pattern-warp in the ordinary way, using,

preferably,a two-shot carpet-loom of ordinary construction,- which produces a fabric of the kind illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6. This fabric comprises the stutter-warp E, the bindingwarps F F, the compound pattern orfacing warp AB, and the filling-threads G G, which alternately occur above and below the stu fferwarp, as indicated. The loops indicatedare formed in the pattern-warp by the pile-wires H, and these loops in cut velvet are severed by the withdrawal of the pile-Wires in the usual manner. When in weaving up the pat-.

tern-warps the row of knots B occurring at thecenter of the pattern, are reached, theloop red H is inserted in the shed, so as toraise each one of the transverse row of center knots above the surface of the fabric, as indicated in Fig. 5. After the weaving has proceeded suflicie'ntly this loop-rod H is cut-out by severing the pattern-warps near the knots, and the extra length of knotting sections or threadsatthis point are removed in any desired way. Any inequalities in the height of the 'velvet at this point may :of-course be removed by a shearing-machine of the ordinary construction,-whi'ch' clips the. surface of the velvet accurately, producing the velvet fab- I ricdiagrammatically indicated'in Fig. 6.

The end knots A are preferably removed from the fabric by-insertin g a rod similar to H and lifting the pattern-warps at this point sufficiently high so that the filling-threads do not engage with them. In this way a heading of ordinary construction is formed, and the pattern-warps are cut away at this heading. If desired, however, the weaving of the compound warp might be accomplished in any other way, and the knots or other means of joining the compound warp-threads might be woven into the'backing, as shown in Fig. 8, which would be desirable in an uncut-pile fabric.- The knots or other joining means B between the sectional warp-threads A and B are woven into the backing, so as to be removed from the face of the uncut-pile fabric. In this way the full-length strip 0 on the right side of the rug is produced, embodying two quarter-section designs symmetrically placed about the middle of the strip. The strip C on the left side of the rug, as indicated in Fig. 7, is formed in a similar manner, the compound warps being similarly produced to form a beam of compound warp, and then this warp-beam is turned from right to left in the loom, so as to bring the=border-warps on the other side of the strip 0. In this way the strip 0 is symmetrical to the strip C about the center of the rug, and since both strips may beformed from pattern-warps printed at the same time upon the printing-drums the colors of the pattern and the-various design elements are exactly reproduced in their proper places in the various strips. 13y reversing the compound warp beam in this manner the texture of the velvet carpet produced is exactly similar in both of the strips 0 and 0 Instead of the reversal of the pattern-warp taking place after the compound warp-beam has been combined it might occur at any other stage of the process, so long as all the compound warps are reversed in position as they are woven into the carpet.

Instead of printing pattern-warps with a quarter-section design and tying the knottingsections of these warps properly and weaving two symmetrical strips, as has been described, the rug might be formed 'of more than two strips, although it would be desirable to have each of the'strips symmetrical to the corresponding strip on the other side of therug. Many other modifications might be made without departing from the spirit of this invention. may be employed without using all of the same, and .parts of this inventioninaybe used in connection with other expedients in this art. Furthermore, it is immaterial, as has been-explained, in what order the various steps of making this carpet are taken, and we do not therefore wish to be limited to the exact order. of these various steps which is mentioned in the claims.

We do not wish to be limited to the disclosure which we have made in this case; but what we claim as new, and what we wish to secure by Letters Patent, is set forth in the appended claims.

What is claimed as new is 1. The process of making carpet com prising printing warp-threads with a quarter-section design and with knotting-sections at the ends of said quarter-section design, spooling and beaming the part of said warp-threads to form a direct warp, spooling and beaming another part of said warp-threads to form a reverse warp, severing and knotting said knottingsections of said direct and reverse warps to form a compound warp composed alternately of direct and reverse warp-sections, weaving a velvet carpet with said compound warp as a pattern-warp, inserting a loop-rod under the knots in said compound warp at the center of .the pattern to raise said knots from the surface of the fabric, cutting out said looprod and removing the upstanding ends of said knotting-sections to form a full-length strip comprising two symmetrical quartersection patterns; in reversing said compound warp from right to left and in weaving a similar f all-length strip therefrom to produce a second strip symmetrical to the first.

2. The process of making carpet which comprises printing pattern-warps with a uartersection design and with knotting-sections at the ends of said quarter-section design, severing said pattern-warps at said knotting-sections, uniting and assembling said patternwarps to form a compound pattern-warp having a full-length symmetrical design comprising two of said quarter-section designs and weaving said compound warp as the pattern-warp of a carpet to produce a strip comprising two of said quarter-section designs.

3. The process of making carpet which comprises printing warp-threads with a quartersection design, severing, joining and assembling said warp-threads to form a compound warp comprising two of said quarter-section designs and weaving said compound warp as the pattern-warp of a carpet to produce a strip comprising two of said quarter-section designs symmetrical about the middle of said strip.

4. The process of making carpet which coinprises printing warp-threads with a quartersection design and producing a fabric from said warp -threads after joining the same, said fabric comprising a design formed of two of said quarter-section designs symmetrically arranged.

5. The process of making fabric which comprises printing warp-threads with a sectional design and with knotting-sections, severing said warp-threads at said knotting-sections, uniting and assembling said Warp-threads to form a compound warp embodying a series of said sectional designs and weaving said compound warp to produce a pattern fabric embodying a multiple design.

6. The process of making fabric which consists in producing colored warp-threads,uniting and assembling said warp-threads to pro- 8. The process of making fabric which comprises printing warp-threads with a sectional design, uniting said warp-threads to form a multiple warp and producing a fabric from said multiple warp embodying a multiple design formed of a plurality ofv said sectional designs.

9. A carpet formed of right and left hand strips said strips comprising symmetrical pattern-warps formed of united sectional warps printed with a sectional design and united symmetrically.

10. A carpet comprising compound patternwarps symmetrical about the center of the same, said compound warps being formed of sectionalpattern-warpssymmetricallyunited.

11. A carpet comprising compound patternwarps symmetrical about the center of the same, said compound warps being formed of two quarter-section pattern-warps symmetrically united.

12. A carpet comprising symmetrical pattern-warps formed of sectional .warps printed with a quarter-section design and united symmetrically.

13. A fabric com-prising compound pattern warp-threads, said compound warp-threads being formed of joined sectional warp-threads.

14. A fabric comprising compound pattern warp-threads said compound warp-threads being formed of joined colored sectional warpthreads.

15. Acompoundwarpcomposedofsectional warp-threads printed with a quarter-section design and with knotting-sections and united at said knotting-sections to form compound warp-threads having a symmetrical design formed of two of said quarter-section designs.

16. A compound warp formed of a plurality of sectional pattern-warps united to form a compound design comprising'said sectional designs.

1'7. The process of forming a c'ompound warp which consists in printing warp-threads with a quarter-section design and with knotting-sections, in severing said warp-threads and uniting said knotting-sections to form a compound warp having symmetrically arranged quarter-section designs.

18. The process. of forming a compound warp which consists in printing warp-threads with a quarter-section design, in severing and uniting said warpthreads to form a compound warp having symmetrically-arranged quartersection designs.

19. The process of producing a compound ing said Warp-threads to produce a Warp havwith a sectional design and in uniting said ing a compound design composed of said sec- Warp-threads to produce a Warp havinga comtlonal designs. pound design composed of said sectional de- 20. The process of producing a compound signs.

5 warp which consists in producing colored warp-threads,-in uniting and in assembling said warp-threads to produce a warp having a compound design. Witnesses: recess of producing a compound THOMAS MOORE,

e p 10 warpwhich consists 1n printing warp-threads HECTOR OSTERHOUDT. 

